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Reigning Queens portrays the four ruling queens at the time – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and Queen Ntfombi Twala of Swaziland. The images used by Warhol to make the screen prints were derived from official photographs.
Shortly after George VI's death, Elizabeth began to be styled as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother because the normal style for the widow of a king, "Queen Elizabeth", would have been too similar to the style of her elder daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. [91] Popularly, she became the "Queen Mother" or the "Queen Mum". [92]
Neither the Queen, the Queen Mother nor Princess Margaret sent a wreath to her funeral. [6] Her story was featured in a 2000 Channel 4 documentary The Nanny Who Wouldn't Keep Mum. [10] In 2021, Crawford was the focus of a novel by Tessa Arlen, In Royal Service to the Queen: A Novel of the Queen's Governess. ISBN 978-0593102480. [12] [13]
In The Crown's final season, there's a flashback to V-E (Victory in Europe) Day on May 8, 1945.Then-Princess Elizabeth (played by Viola Prettejohn) and Princess Margaret (Beau Gadsdon) leave ...
The Queen’s cousin Margaret Rhodes described how the monarch blossomed in later years. “I think in a funny way, perhaps, you know the death of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother had quite a huge ...
The royal family has boasted some very long-lived members—Prince Philip passed away barely two months before his centenary, Queen Elizabeth lived to be 96, and her mother, the late Queen Mother ...
She is the mother of the current monarch. She is a queen dowager, i.e. the widow of a king. Queen mother does not mean mother of the Queen; it applies whether the current monarch is queen or king. As a queen dowager, a queen mother assumes the style of "Her Majesty Queen [first name]" upon her husband’s death.
A historical fantasy of Elizabeth's life, featuring elven guardians, is recounted in This Scepter'd Isle (2004), Ill Met by Moonlight (2005), and By Slanderous Tongues (2007) by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis. Queen Elizabeth I: A Children's Picture Book by Richard Brassey (2005) Queen Elizabeth I and Her Conquests by Margret Simpson (2006)